About the Presenter:Marsha Tilles, L.C.S.W., Psy.D., is a recent graduate of ICP. She has a private practice in West Hollywood where she treats adult individuals and couples with a special interest in helping those with complex family structures and dynamics. Marsha is a social worker at heart and is both a proud wife to her husband of 11 years and a proud mom of their 8 year old daughter.

About the Discussants:Carol Mayhew, Ph.D., Psy.D., is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Brentwood. She received her psychoanalytic training at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, where she is past-president of the Institute, as well as a training and supervising analyst and faculty member. Dr. Mayhew has taught and offered presentations in the areas of trauma, attachment and dissociation nationally and internationally.

A recent graduate of ICP, Daniel Goldin, L.M.F.T., Psy.D., serves as an associate editor of Psychoanalytic Inquiry and as associate book editor of Psychoanalysis: Self and Context. He has written articles for Psychoanalytic Dialogues, The International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology and Psychoanalytic Inquiry. In a past life, he wrote numerous screenplays for the Hollywood studios.

Daniel Goldin is in private practice in South Pasadena, where he treats adults and adolescents with a special interest in helping those in recovery.

Howard Bacal, M.D., is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. He is in private practice in Los Angeles. Howard qualified in adult and child psychoanalysis at the Institute of Psychoanalysis in London, where he was supervised by Michael Balint, Donald Winnicott, and Wilfred Bion. He subsequently undertook further training with Heinz Kohut and his colleagues in Chicago, which led to his formulating a “relational self psychology”.

Howard has authored numerous papers on psychoanalytic theory and practice. He is also co-author, with Kenneth Newman, of Theories of Object-Relations: Bridges to Self Psychology (1990); Ed., Optimal Responsiveness: How Therapists Heal their Patients (1998), and The Power of Specificity in Psychotherapy: When Therapy Works – And When It Doesn’t (2011), in which he describes his theory of the specificity of dyadic process (specificity theory) in psychoanalytic treatment.

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